I think arguing (terminal) chronic pain with a healthy person is like getting them to intuitively comprehend infinity; the best that can be hoped for is for them to understand that it’s beyond comprehension, it’s on an altogether different band than normal pain, and one of the worst things that can be done is to relate their pain to any scale of normalcy.

You just have to avoid to go to a hospital run by a catholic organisation or doctor.

I hope that you will be able to use this option the day that you decide it has been enough.

On the other hand : stay alive, I like to read your ramblings :-)

Anyway, as I said I didn’t start taking optiates until YEARS after the pain developed. I’m not sure if your post was a dig or an attempt to be helpful, and really I’ve only let it through moderation because the incorrect assumption you’re making is something that many pain patients face and makes diagnosis much more difficult, unpleasant, and lengthy. I also agree that it’s always important for patients to be wary that the treatment they’re receiving could be making their problems worse rather than better… Especially in the case of rare diseases where doctors are somewhat grasping in the dark.

The laws of God (including physics, and?) are enforced by God, everything else is little more than a cosmic poker game where you are supposed to make the best of the cards you are dealt; then along come those who are essentially professionally (or spiritually) evil, to prey upon weakness for personal financial gain.

Freedom is lacking when the terminally afflicted are only trusted to decide what they want to do (with their own body) from options that serve the will of the establishment (or the man behind the curtain pretending to be God).

Ideally no one would want to end their own life, but reality (still) has it’s own agenda, and who’s body is it anyway? If our own bodies are not legally our own property then how free are we? Right to die legislation helps to codify that our body and mind belong to each other, not to the state, and not to anyone or anything else (unless we choose so).

The good news is I’m convinced that “Even death is not built to last.” But that’s another topic, and the validity of my argument relies heavily on agreeing on what defines an individual in the first place.